The idea that a relationship can be prior to its parts may sound strange, but when we start to think about it, the idea that things exist first and then enter into relationship can come to sound just as strange…Imagine a glass cylinder or tube that is open at each end lying on its side.

We look up into the heavens and we see the constellations. The Big Dipper hangs right up there every night, year after year. It is very easy to think that those seven stars actually do have some relation to each other that intrinsically has a greater integrity than any dozens of other combinations that could be formed with the neighboring stars.